Princess of Nongmen

Chapter 522 Finding the Insect Egg
Liu Ya was rather nervous, staring at the bamboo tube in Cang Qianche's hand, waiting to see the bugs inside.It took a while, and sure enough, a pair of claws emerged from the small mouth of the bamboo tube.But it is not like the claws of crabs or lobsters, but rather like a pair of zigzag rakes of mole crickets.

Then, the weird-looking bug crawled out cautiously, it was not as big as Cang Qianche said, except for a pair of claws that were more conspicuous, its body was a bit bigger than a fly, but not as round as a fly's belly , a bit like the belly of a mosquito.Overall, it looks like a reddish-brown mosquito with a pair of claws.

"Just this thing?" Liu Ya gave up her guard, leaned forward a little bit, and after looking at it for a while, asked, "Why does it bite you every time? It doesn't seem to be aggressive at all?"

"I don't know." Cang Qianche shook his head, casually broke a small bamboo branch, gently touched the belly of the big turtle mosquito with the bamboo branch, and said: "Every time it seems to crawl out slowly like this, and then Suddenly, it jumped on my hand like a grasshopper and took a bite. But it didn’t hurt very much, just like being bitten by a mosquito.”

Liu Ya asked again: "And then? How did it react after it bit you?"

Cang Qianche shook his head, and said: "I don't know how it will react when it bites me. It didn't say that my meat is unpalatable. And I was crushed to death by it after being bitten. I told you last time. your."

The corner of Liu Ya's mouth twitched, her eyebrows twitched wildly.That's right, I was run over to death by Cang Qianche every time before, so I really couldn't observe it.But looking at it now, the bug crawled slowly and didn't jump wildly, let alone a grasshopper, it didn't even look like a spider, it just looked lazy.

Liu Ya asked again: "Then why did it take so many days to find one? Didn't it say before that there would be one every two or three days?"

Cang Qianche still shook his head, and then asked in doubt: "Could it be because I haven't brought a bamboo tube to the bamboo forest recently?"

"What's going on, tell me in detail." Liu Ya asked Cang Qianche to explain in detail, and at the same time signaled him to stuff the bug back first.

Cang Qianche picked it up with a bamboo branch, and the worms fell back into the bamboo tube and were covered again.Then Cang Qianche said: "I'm just guessing. Because the bamboo tube has not been filled before, so I go to the bamboo forest to collect this kind of water almost every day. So every two or three days. You will find this kind of insects crawling out of it. But recently the collection is full, I hang the bamboo tubes in the house, and I don’t go to the bamboo forest again. Could it be related to this?”

After listening to Cang Qianche's words, Liu Ya also frowned, and then guessed: "Could it be eggs?"

Liu Ya's guess was that when Cang Qianche collected this kind of water, the eggs of this kind of bug would inadvertently fall into the bamboo tube.The eggs hatched and grew up in the bamboo tube, and when Cang Qianche opened the bamboo tube again, they crawled out.And Cang Qianche didn't collect this kind of water recently, so the possibility of insect eggs falling into it is relatively small.

Thinking of this, Liu Ya asked Cang Qianche: "Then the bug suddenly appeared, is it because you opened the plug two or three days ago?"

Cang Qianche nodded, and said affirmatively: "It should be said that I opened the bamboo tube in the bamboo forest. Since you left that day, no insects have appeared again. I also felt very impatient, so I simply took the bamboo tube in the bamboo forest. When I have nothing to do on my body, I opened it to look at it and stirred it with a bamboo branch. Then three days ago, it was probably in this position, and I also opened it when I was waiting for the little tree, so when I looked again today, there was Crawling out the worms."

Liu Ya squinted her eyes, looked up at the few bamboos in front of her, and seemed to have found the answer.It is because the eggs fall inadvertently, and then the larvae hatch in the bamboo tube.The growth rate of the larvae is quite amazing, and it can grow to such a large size in three days.

"I'll go up and have a look, maybe I can find something different from before." After Liu Ya finished speaking, she began to climb up the bamboo.

Cang Qianche was worried, but only one person could climb on this pillar, because the side branches of the bamboo were very thin, so no one could stand on it, even if Cang Qianche followed Liu Ya up, he could only stay under her.So he simply climbed onto the bamboo that was closest to Liu Ya, the distance between them was only two arms' lengths away.From this position, this angle, Cang Qianche can also clearly see what Liu Ya is observing.

The last time she climbed a tall bamboo, Liu Ya only observed that the bamboo insects gnawed on the bamboo, and then spit out a lot of "water" rich in nutrients.This time Liu Ya wanted to find out if there were eggs of bamboo worms or eggs of other insects.However, there are many bamboo worms, but none of the eggs can be seen.

Liu Ya jumped directly from this bamboo to another bamboo not too far away, but she still didn't find anything special.

At this moment, the little tree waiting below shouted: "Second Sister, split the bamboo and have a look. Could it be hiding in the bamboo?"

yes!Liu Ya's eyes lit up, and she pulled out the sharp knife with horns on her waist, stabbed it in the middle of the bamboo, then swung the handle of the knife from side to side a few times, and split the bamboo with the blade.

With a "click", the crack in the bamboo extended straight down, and the upper part also split into two halves, and the hollow inside the bamboo tube could be vaguely seen.

"Sure enough, there is something." Liu Ya poked the point of the knife in and picked out a little bit of brown powder, which felt light and thin like soot.

Cang Qianche followed Liu Ya to jump several times, and kept at Liu Ya's side all the time.It's just that he couldn't see clearly what was on the tip of Liu Ya's knife, so he had to say: "Ya'er, what is the discovery? Bring it here and show me."

Liu Ya said: "Throw the bamboo tube over here, I'll put this in."

Cang Qianche untied the bamboo tube at his waist, and told Liu Ya: "Open it carefully, or the bugs inside will crawl out."

"Yes, I know." Liu Ya said, holding on to the bamboo with her legs, and persuaded her to come over with one arm, clamping the bamboo, then carefully pulled out the plug, and gently shook the brown powder on the tip of the knife into it.

Before the tip of the knife could be retracted, the big gnat poked its head out again.As a result, it was stabbed by the point of Liu Ya's knife, and it was stuffed back again.

After covering the stopper, Liu Ya hung the bamboo tube around her waist, and then slid down from the bamboo.

Cang Qianche jumped down directly, and seeing Liu Ya put the bamboo tube by her side, she worriedly said: "Ya'er, leave this to me for safekeeping. If the worms can really hatch, I will Call you to come and see."

(End of this chapter)